![]() ![]() The trickster, separated from self, society, and family, storied his way to survival. Slaves, denied evidence of their heritage, resorted to counterfeiting tactics to recover a sense of identity and community. To best understand storying one could do worse than turn to Kevin Young’s The Grey Album. What we do know is that Reynolds, who always identified as Southern, and even affected a twang to fit the image, was, with this odd fib, participating in a cultural practice with roots dating back to nineteenth-century plantation culture. Why anyone born in Lansing Michigan would want to be from Waycross Georgia is a baffling question. He said he was born in Waycross, Georgia. ![]() Particularly weird was how Reynolds often lied about where he was born. ![]() When Burt Reynolds died last August, the obits recounted the strange life of an iconic American actor. ![]()
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